Moodring
07/22/2003 | Interscope Records
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$12.99MOODRING
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$31.99MOODRING (BONUS TRACKS) (JPN)
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All Music Guide Review
With all the emotional and stylistic range that an album called Moodring should present, Mya comes up with her best and most varied set of songs yet. The album's biggest highlights are almost completely different from one another, demonstrated right from the beginning; the opener, the strutting, boastful, Missy Elliott-produced "My Love Is Like...Wo" is immediately followed by the yearning, elegant "Falling." The constant changes of direction can be a little jarring on the first couple plays, but they eventually become one of the album's charms. Even the two expectedly strong Jam & Lewis productions, the blissed-out "Anatomy 1On1" ("Let's make a child") and the stressed-out "Late" ("Should've been more careful when I let him rock my boat") are at two ends. Most surprising of all is "Whatever Bitch," a stage-ready booty track in which Mya shows off her foul-mouthed catty side. Two big (mis)steps back threaten to kill her momentum, however, and they both come at the very end of this very long album: the bloodless cover of Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" is worse than you could possibly imagine, and the awkward inclusion of "Real Compared to What," the soft drink ad that originated as a civil rights/Vietnam protest song, was a very bad idea. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Moodring Track Listing
Credits of Moodring
- Pino Palladino
- Producer
- Dave Pensado
- Mixing
- Joel Peskin
- Horn
- James Poyser
- Producer
- Eddy Schreyer
- Mastering
- Derek Scott
- Guitar
- Carl "Butch" Small
- Percussion
- Doug Wilson
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Frank Wolf
- Engineer, String Engineer
- Jerome Foster
- Producer
- Dave "Hard Drive" Pensade
- Mixing
- Maxine Roach
- Viola
- Mark Sparks
- Producer
- Eric Dawkins
- Vocals (Background), Vocal Arrangement
- Loren Hill
- Producer
- Kevin Veney
- Producer
- Eddie Cole & His Gang
- Bass, Guitar
- Missy Elliott
- Vocals (Background), Producer
- Timbaland
- Producer
- William Reichenbach
- Horn
- Chris "Tricky" Stewart
- Producer
- Earl Flemming
- Keyboards
- Natalie Leggett
- Violin, Viola
- Don Vito
- Producer
- Pete Karam
- Engineer
- Ahmir Khalib Thompson
- Producer
- Frank Wolfe
- Engineer
- Duro
- Producer
- Damon Elliott
- Producer
- Mya
- Main Performer
- Rockwilder
- Programming, Producer
- Romeo Antonio
- Guitar
- Marc Baptiste
- Photography
- Iz
- Guitar, Producer, Percussion, Drums
- Sheryl Nields
- Photography
- Carol Kirkendall
- Production Coordination, Art Coordinator
- Darryl Harper
- Keyboards
- Cecelia Hobbs Gardner
- Violin
- Mike Anzel
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Drew FitzGerald
- Art Direction
- Katrina Willis
- Vocals (Background)
- Michael Valerio
- Bass
- Jeff Oakes
- Producer
- Tal Herzberg
- Bass, Engineer, Digital Editing, Guitar (Bass), Guitar
- David Guerrero
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Ryan West
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Laurie Evans
- Vocals (Background)
- Ravi Best
- Trumpet
- Matt Marrin
- Assistant
- Matt Marron
- Assistant
- Rowie Nameri
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Rich Shelton
- Producer
- Brian "B Luv" Thomas
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Kyle Armbrust
- Viola
- Ethan Willoughby
- Mixing Assistant, Assistant
- Patrice Bowie
- Vocals (Background)
- Bruce Buechner
- Engineer
- Randy Bugnitz
- Engineer
- Syuji Sunaga
- Digital Editing
- Brian Summerville
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Krystyana Chelminski
- Violin
- James Czfiner
- Violin, Horn
- Kris Ricat
- Guitar, Horn
- CKB
- Producer
- James Czeiner
- Violin
- Omen
- Producer
- O.J. Harper
- Keyboards
- Jun Jensen
- Cello
- Julia Kirkendall
- Production Coordination, Art Coordinator
- Clue & Duro
- Producer
- Jerry Ney
- Horn, Horn Arrangements
- Bobby Ross Avila
- Guitar, Strings, Keyboards, Producer, Wurlitzer
- Sue Ann Carwell
- Vocals (Background)
- Alex Al
- Bass, Bass (Upright)
- Sandra Billingslea
- Violin, Viola
- Dinky Bingham
- Keyboard Programming
- Luis Conte
- Percussion
- Ian Cross
- Engineer
- Steve Deutsch
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Jimmy Douglass
- Mixing
- Ron Fair
- Conductor, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocal Arrangement, String Arrangements, Vocal Producer
- Steve Ferrone
- Drums
- Eileen Folson
- Cello, Viola
- Clark Gayton
- Trombone
- Gary Grant
- Horn
- G.A. Grant
- Horn
- Mark Harrison
- Vocals (Background), Producer, Executive Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Vocal Producer
- Jerry Hey
- Horn, Horn Arrangements
- Dan Higgins
- Horn
- Troy Hightower
- Engineer, Digital Editing
- Jimmy Jam
- Producer, Instrumentation
- Karol Kopernicky
- Production Coordination
- Terry Lewis
- Producer, Instrumentation

















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